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On January 22, BBC News at Ten carried a
piece
by 'defence' correspondent
Jonathan Beale
reporting a speech by General Sir Nick Carter, the British Army's Chief of General Staff. Carter gave his speech, pleading for more resources in the face of the Russian 'threat', at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an establishment thinktank with close links to the military and corporate media.

As Noam Chomsky has often
remarked
: 'liberal bias is extremely important in a sophisticated system of propaganda.' One major news outlet that Chomsky had in mind was the
New York Times
, but the same applies in the UK. As a senior British intelligence official
noted
of the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan:

'It is always helpful for governments who want to get the
Guardian
readers of the world on board to have a humanitarian logic.'